THE CRUEL, MONSTROUS JOKE OF ‘RENT ASSISTANCE’
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Just fifty bucks a week
That’s all we get to keep,
Rent costs us three-hundred bucks
But we get back
just eighty bucks a week.
For those of us on Job Seek
It’s just fifty bucks a week
Our rent may reach three-fifty bucks
But we get back
just eighty bucks to keep.
Just eighty bucks a week.
Is what we get from that
bloody creep,
While Rudd jetsets around
the World
We get just fifty bucks a week.
Just fifty bucks a week
The Old-Age are far too meak,
They’re not about to inherit
the World
On just fifty bucks a week.
For invalids life’s bleak
Their bills are far too steep,
Their rent’s a thousand bucks
a month
But they get back fifty bucks
a week.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About this poem
I used to think doctors were gready bastards for charging so much above the medicare levy. That is until I became an invalid and had to try surviving upon a feeble pension. My rent assistence is less than a quarter of my rent, and since I'm on a lot of medication they give a PPS allowance. $2.90 per item. Unfortunately that is about 30 years out of date. The PPS charge is $6.60 per item these days. I sincerely apologise to the entire medical community for maligning you for so long. If the government is as out of date with your payments as with pension payments; no wonder you have to charge way above the Medare levy. more »
Written on February 13, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 13, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AbcDA aacDb AebxFa AaeFa abcxca xxx |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 892 |
Words | 138 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6, 5, 6, 3 |
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